He shut down scoutpads.com, removed Scoutpads from his LinkedIn page and is trying hard to silence any negative reviews of him or his businesses.

Expert panel advice: Try putting more money down so they know you’re real.This is how a new investor could be committing fraud in the inducement at the advice of “experts”, and ironically how a lot of negative BP threads are posted regarding “stolen” down payments.

You are led to believe that the guru will provide all the knowledge and information you need to be successful in some aspect of the real estate industry.  

As Theresa pointed out, the real point of a termination fee is to allow the tenant to break a lease early without negatively impacting your finances.

And how the system would create negative outcomes for those who did negotiate lower fees.

How much negative cash flow are you?

You seem t0 negate that part.

I keep coming up with negative cash flow on many of the investments I am interested in.

His negative reaction and aversion to wanting a neutral third party to play referee was a tip off to me to do more research and after paying $25USD for an online background check on the seller I discovered he had multiple judgements against him for business fraud even though the title to the property was clear.My personal lessons from my scammer were1.

-Often a persons last years are in assisted living, a nursing home, or with their children, so I could take possession of the home (and generate profit from it) sooner than the persons death.Potential risk that I can think of:-Higher out-of-pocket costs/negative initial cash flow with delayed financial reward.